Frank Mulligan: Poll casts pall

According to a recent nationwide media poll, the mood of Americans is the lowest it’s been since “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was released to theaters.

Frank Mulligan

According to a recent nationwide media poll, the mood of Americans is the lowest it’s been since “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was released to theaters.

Americans today are increasingly dubious about the state of the economy, the effectiveness of government and Lindsay Lohan’s claim she was actually borrowing that necklace.

Amid escalating gasoline prices, the rancorous partisan debate in Washington and speculation that Donald Trump’s hair may not be entirely genuine, many Americans apparently feel low enough to write a country-and-western song about good love gone bad.

According to the poll results, the number of disgruntled Americans is on the increase, as is the number of Americans who respond, “whatever …” to all attempts at conversation.

And, perhaps most telling of all, when asked with which of the seven dwarfs they most identify more Americans cited “Grumpy” than at any time since the release of the 1937 Disney classic, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Sneezy came in a distant second, which may indicate pollen levels are up as well.

Other findings:

· Twenty-eight percent of the Americans polled continue to question whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States because Hawaii is really a foreign country.

· Twenty-seven percent of those polled believe the deficit can only be reduced by cutting taxes to the nation’s most wealthy residents and that “Porky’s Revenge!” is a documentary.

· Twenty-six percent of Americans polled say they favor smaller government in which elected officials would not be allowed to exceed 5-foot-4 inches in height.

· Given the choice of cutting Medicare, military spending or the length of the National Hockey League playoffs, most Americans opted to snip the NHL schedule.

· Poll results indicate more and more Americans are questioning the pronunciation of House Speaker John Boehner’s name.

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